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Industry expanded quickly. The happily prospering businessman needed  a vast number of mechanics, engineers, and supervisors to fulfill the profit requirements of an economic strategy which served exclusively the demands of mass-production prosperity. The common denominator was quick specialization, without any consideration for biological fundamentals. Vocational schools were founded for the required specialists. Fields of [...]

My smaller, more specific agenda here is to address a moral eccentricity that per- vades American “high architecture,” the ABC principle—ABC standing, in this case, for “Anything But Commercial.” This principle holds that a really serious, well-connected, metaphysically sound architect in the early 21st century will work for any government, however repressive; any corporation, however [...]

In moving through real, “sensorial,” space we may touch immediately near objects. Distant objects in real space are “touched” in the mind (we say the mind “reaches out”). The manner, therefore, in which we make our mental approach to a distant object of attention is styled through analogy with, and expectation of, the bodily experience [...]

From Introduction
Western metaphysics has traditionally considered the senses of touch, smell, and taste inferior and mere bodily. Also phenomenology has from the beginning held vision to be the paradigm of perception and generally neglected touch, smell, and taste even more. Finally, as a metaphysically rooted discipline, classical aesthetics has denied the artistic potential of these [...]

Think about the strangeness of today’s situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist, fascist, capitalist, whatever. Today, nobody even debates these issues. We all silently accept global capitalism is here to stay. On the other hand, we are obsessed with cosmic catastrophes: the whole life on [...]

There is a popular, widespread belief that computers can do only what they are programmed to do. This false belief is based on a confusion between form and content. A rigid grammar need not make for precision in describing processes. The programmer must be very precise in following the computer grammar, but the content he [...]

From 1.1. Data vs. Information
…we can begin with a notion of data from empirical science, as a set of measurements extracted from the flux of the real. In themselves, such measurements are abstract, blank, meaningless. Only when organised and contextualised by an observer does this data yield information, a message or meaning. The concepts are [...]

I heard a Fly buzz — when I died –
The Stillness in the Room
Was like the Stillness in the Air –
Between the Heaves of Storm –
The Eyes around — had wrung them dry –
And Breaths were gathering firm
For that last Onset — when the King
Be witnessed — in the Room –
I willed my Keepsakes — [...]

There is another sky,
Ever serene and fair,
And there is another sunshine,
Though it be darkness there;
Never mind faded forests, Austin,
Never mind silent fields -
Here is a little forest,
Whose leaf is ever green;
Here is a brighter garden,
Where not a frost has been;
In its unfading flowers
I hear the bright bee hum:
Prithee, my brother,
Into my garden come!

From Introduction: Let the Problem of the Mind Dissolve in Your Mind
This is an exercise in fictional science, or science fiction, if you like that better. Not for amusement: science fiction in the service of science. Or just science, if you agree that fiction is a part of it, always was, and always will be [...]